DOT-TO-DOT HISTORY: Circuit #1
March 99 Project
March 99 Project
MARCH 99 Dot-to-Dot Artists
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Peter Wolf- male, painter/collage artist, convention builder, age 52, very intuition based, meditates daily, looks like a cop and plays it by wearing a fake badge on his hat, great cook.
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Jason Rogalski-male, born in Southern California, age 29, obsessed with art, drawn to bodies of water, alters his appearance regularly, infinity symbol scarred into his ankle, married to Brandie. Click here for Jason's Portfolio!
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Brandie Maddalena-female, from Northern California, very 'nature' based, explores life-art concepts, age 26, hates shoes, well read, tattoo of infinity symbol on ankle, married to Jason.
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In Rosarito...
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Nina Chesakov-female, born in Moscow, new genres artist, age 19, obsessed with 'purple', big purple dreads with various objects tied in.
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We met Francisco Cabellos (below) at a coffee shop. Francisco is a excellent painter from Rosarito.
...CLICK HERE to see his portfolio!
...CLICK HERE to see his portfolio!
Francisco showed us the way to the elementary school and worked with us at the assembly.
At the assembly, we passed out paper and a pack of crayons to every kid. They got to keep the crayons.
We asked them to draw their dreams. This translated to what do you want to be when you grow up...what do you dream of for your future?
Fran Ilich did incredible video documentation of the project.
We passed out colored sidewalk-chalk. Many projects occurred...like the hop-scotch.
Jason did a hop-scotch in the shape of a giant lizard, its tail curled around so that after hoping through it...you would spin and get dizzy. At one point their were a dozen children spinning into dizziness. And Brandie was doing large chalk drawings and having them guess what she was making...if they guessed it, then she'd give them the chalk and they could finish it. The younger ones were filling them in...like a giant coloring book.
Every now and again Nina would run by, she was doing running work. Sometimes she'd have a single child holding her hand...throwing purple glitter as they went. Other times, enormous groups chased her!
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One of these chases merged with Jason's group where he was doing a yelling piece. |
He would ask each kid to yell individually, to show that they yelled different. This eventually turned into group yells and animal calls. Peter was giving piggy-back rides.
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Later, as things calmed, face painting was added! |
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After the assembly ended, we meet with several artists at the Institute of Culture for a lunch.
Some of the artists who attended spoke no english, so we did collaborations to communicate. Much thanks to Litia Munoz, who made all of this possible.
We stayed the night at Francisco and Lucy's house. From there out, we caravaned south camping along the way. Much work was produced, including several collaborations. Deep into the desert, we met a hermit.
We stayed the night at Francisco and Lucy's house. From there out, we caravaned south camping along the way. Much work was produced, including several collaborations. Deep into the desert, we met a hermit.
He invited us to his house!
He had a dead tree in front of his house with cow sculls on it. Inside we shared a bottle of tequilla and did several collaborative art works. One was 'Puerta de Sombras' (Door of Shadows) in which we all did interacting shadow projections onto his door by candlelight. We also did a huge Madonna floor piece out of rusty anchor chains.
At Bahia de los Angeles, we hit heavy winds so we stayed in a cave. We did art that utilized the wind.
Right after snorkling, Brandie and Jason stood on the beach and watched a Orca swim by. There were many grey whales out deep and we got to see the deserts spring bloom (giant cactus flowers).
At Bahia de los Angeles, we hit heavy winds so we stayed in a cave. We did art that utilized the wind.
Right after snorkling, Brandie and Jason stood on the beach and watched a Orca swim by. There were many grey whales out deep and we got to see the deserts spring bloom (giant cactus flowers).